This guy blows............

[pair8head]

KEY WEST, Fla. -- Playing a Frank Sinatra classic on a conch shell helped a local bicycle tour operator take top honors in an unusual "musical" competition in Key West.

Lloyd Mager impressed judges at the 47th annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest on Saturday with portions of "Strangers in the Night," as well as the classic Hebrew folk song "Hava Nagilah" and "The Alley Cat Song."

Mager, a 35-year-old Key West resident, likens playing a conch shell to playing a brass instrument.

Judges evaluated contest entrants, who ranged from less than 3 years old to seniors, on the quality, novelty, duration and loudness of the sounds they produced.

The winning group entry was an 18-piece "conchestra" whose members blew their shells while dancing to a parody of Jimmy Buffett's "Volcano."

[lime rickie]

KEY WEST, Fla. -- Playing a Frank Sinatra classic on a conch shell helped a local bicycle tour operator take top honors in an unusual "musical" competition in Key West.

Lloyd Mager impressed judges at the 47th annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest on Saturday with portions of "Strangers in the Night," as well as the classic Hebrew folk song "Hava Nagilah" and "The Alley Cat Song."

Mager, a 35-year-old Key West resident, likens playing a conch shell to playing a brass instrument.

Judges evaluated contest entrants, who ranged from less than 3 years old to seniors, on the quality, novelty, duration and loudness of the sounds they produced.

The winning group entry was an 18-piece "conchestra" whose members blew their shells while dancing to a parody of Jimmy Buffett's "Volcano."

[phjrsaunt]

I love it! Only in Key West!

[Tiki Bar]

Lloyd's on my radio right now...

He's actually quite funny, and sounds like a Key Wester!

And he blows a mean conch!


WLUP 97.9 FM Chicago

I think they do stream, just not sure how to do it.

[RinglingRingling]

wow.. at least 18 folks from KW who don't automatically spit at the mention of Buffett

[Bicycle Bill]

KEY WEST, Fla. -- Playing a Frank Sinatra classic on a conch shell helped a local bicycle tour operator take top honors in an unusual "musical" competition in Key West.

Lloyd Mager impressed judges at the 47th annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest on Saturday with portions of "Strangers in the Night," as well as the classic Hebrew folk song "Hava Nagilah" and "The Alley Cat Song."

Mager, a 35-year-old Key West resident, likens playing a conch shell to playing a brass instrument.

Judges evaluated contest entrants, who ranged from less than 3 years old to seniors, on the quality, novelty, duration and loudness of the sounds they produced.

The winning group entry was an 18-piece "conchestra" whose members blew their shells while dancing to a parody of Jimmy Buffett's "Volcano."

Hmmmm.....I'll have to see if he's available to join Bicycle Bill's Beach Cruises' staff back in Critterville Cove. Talent like that must be appreciated and supported!!
Seriously, though, I'd have paid money to have seen that. Anybody know if there's anything on Youtube or somesuch??

-"BB"-

[pair8head]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1GBkUpe2gw

[Lightning Bolt]

I was half expecting a picture of Dizzy Gillespie